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Wi-Fi to arrive at UK's railway stations
News Laptop and PDA users will soon be offered wireless high-speed Internet access at 15 of Britain's major railway stations. Megabeam, a European wireless ISP, said on Monday it has reached agreement with Railtrack -- which currently owns the UK's...
[July 16, 2002, 10:35]
Virgin leaps on board with Wi-Fi
News Virgin Trains is rolling out wireless networks at several of the railway stations it serves, and is also aiming to crack the holy grail of Wi-Fi access on a moving train. We are very excited about launching the first seamless and secure Internet...
[June 3, 2003, 11:38]
Railways set for Wi-Fi showdown
News The UK's two leading Wi-Fi operators are on course for their first territorial clash, and the scene of battle is Britain's largest railway stations. BT Openzone, the pace-setter in the rollout of 802.11b, or Wi-Fi, hot spots across the UK, said...
[February 3, 2003, 14:37]
Lacey's Paper Round
News The Times reports on an innovative use of mobile telphony, where you can dial a chocolate bar at Finnish railway stations. At Finnish railway stations, vending machines sell chocolate bars displaying their own mobile number.
[August 10, 1998, 9:33]
All aboard for Wi-Fi trains?
News Wi-Fi is already being rolled out at many of the UK's major railway stations by Megabeam -- the next challenge is to get it into the carriages themselves. The Wireless LAN Event heard on Thursday that several companies in the railway sector are...
[May 23, 2003, 17:13]
Swisscom to speed up Wi-Fi rollout
News Last summer, Megabeam announced that it would roll out its service at many of the UK's major railway stations -- a move that looked to give the company a major advantage against rivals such as BT Openzone.
[June 25, 2003, 16:33]
Indian IT sector boosts security post-Mumbai attacks
News As per reports, scientists are evaluating a state-of-the-art embedded security system to safeguard busy railway stations across the country, some of which had been targets of terror attacks. It can help secure vulnerable areas such as hotels...
[January 27, 2009, 10:35]
Japan Railway Station Melodies
Downloads Japan Railway (JR) stations play different amusing melodies, to give passengers warning for when the train doors are about to close. Japan Railway Station Melodies will play some of these cute synthesized jingles from stops around Japan.
[July 11, 2007, 12:05]
Sybase Case Study: China Railway Express
White Papers Working with Sybase and Turbolinux, CRE deployed the National Logistics Information Platform, a highly efficient information management solution used in more than 400 parcel operations, 230 railway stations and all 18 bureaus of the MOR.
[April 25, 2007, 1:00]
Hong Kong Subway/MTR Map
Downloads It shows all the subway stations and also includes the railway system connecting to the city of Shenzhen at mainland China. This is Hong Kong Subway/MTR Map, where MTR, or Mass Transit Railway, is the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong.
[October 31, 2008, 8:49]
theNextTrain VRE
Downloads Offline Schedules (up to 14 days in advance) * Individual Station Schedules (all stops at a station) * Trip Schedules (between two stations) including trip duration and arrival time * Free Schedule Updates (as necessary) * Interactive System Map...
[September 25, 2008, 22:01]
Loco Mania
Downloads Fast-paced, quick thinking, strategy game that puts you in charge of an entire railway network. Take on the role of a train dispatcher and test your skills through a multitude of tasks, from getting your trains to their stations on time to guiding...
[January 18, 2007, 22:14]
Visitor Guide Metro Istanbul
Downloads Visitor Guide Istanbul Visitor Guide Istanbul is an easy to use tourist guide and route planner for the metro, tram, funicular railway and light rail systems of Istanbul.The full version comes with picture galaries of the majour tourist...
[February 7, 2006, 6:00]
O2 mobile broadband hooks up to BT Wi-Fi
News Many of the new Openzone hotspots are in locations such as railway stations, airport lounges, conference centres and motorway service stations, as well as in Caffè Nero and Starbucks coffee houses, and Hilton hotels.
[June 29, 2009, 14:00]
BT's Wi-Fi adventure snubs 3G
News It also hopes to sign up many more partners, and expects to make its service available at railway stations -- a move already taken by Megabeam, Openzone's main rival. A total of 27 Welcome Break service stations will also get Openzone hot spots...
[January 29, 2003, 15:39]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So if anyone can tell me what the security threat to railway stations is that means they no longer want to talk to their customers, I’d be pleased to hear it. I know there are some terrible people out there prepared to blow things up, but there’s...
[August 8, 2003, 18:00]
2012 Olympics may see Tube mobile coverage
News Carter's Digital Britain report also flags up other transport comms gaps which he believes need plugging — noting there has been a failure to provide "reliable and consistent" mobile broadband coverage on the UK's railway network.
[June 18, 2009, 9:17]
Smart Maps CZ Praha
Downloads Points of interest database with hotels, cinemas, theatres, railway stations, post offices, bus stops and shopping centres. City Map for the town of Praha (CZ) for Palm OS PDAs. With search function including over 9,000 streets.
[December 6, 2004, 6:00]
LingvoSoft English - Romanian Travel Suite 2007
Downloads General Features: Square (QVGA 240*240) and high-resolution screen (480*640) supportApplication is compatible with Windows Mobile 2003, Windows Mobile Version 5.0Unique intuitive keyboard layouts for easier language specific character...
[April 25, 2007, 8:00]
Bluetooth will coexist with WLANs, says Forrester
News There will be ten times as many Bluetooth devices as wireless LAN nodes, according to analyst Lars Godell; but Wireless LAN (WLAN) will dominate for PC access, especially in public "hot spots" like airports and railway stations.
[October 22, 2001, 15:26]
